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Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: Central Park New York: 24 Solar Terms

25 September 2017 0

The title of the show takes its name from the ancient Chinese lunar calendar, which divides the year into 24 segments, each segment given a specific solar term. This system provided a time frame for agriculture, everyday life and festivals.…

Trevor and Faye Yerbury: Yerbury Nudes (Kickstarter)

24 September 2017 0

Trevor & Faye have waited a long time to see this project come to fruition, and are delighted that they now have complete control of the production. The book will contain many of their favourite and well known images, dating…

Our Strength Is Our People: The Humanist Photographs of Lewis Hine

24 September 2017 0

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940) was considered the father of American documentary photography. This exhibition consists of rare vintage prints, and covers the three overarching themes of Hine’s three-decade career: the immigrant experience; child labor; and the American worker, culminating in…

Dmitri Baltermants: Documenting and Staging a Soviet Reality

23 September 2017 0

Dmitri Baltermants (1912–1990) was one of the most important Soviet photojournalists at mid-century. His humanizing, often dramatic compositions of World War II and its aftermath affected viewers in the USSR and around the world. Baltermants graduated from the Math and…

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Seascapes

22 September 2017 0

For more than 30 years, Hiroshi Sugimoto has traveled the world photographing its seas, producing an extended meditation on the passage of time and the natural history of the earth reduced to its most basic, primordial substances: water and air.…

Melissa Amber and Ashley Nicole: Woman + Wolf

21 September 2017 0

Reclaiming her power within, Woman + Wolf is the exploration into the wild woman archetype, a deep-rooted connection to self, spirit, nature and a woman’s innate wildness: the female psyche mirrored within the wolf. Unfolding, is the unshaken, empowered origins…

Rudolf Burckhardt and Edwin Denby: A Walk through Astoria and Other Places in Queens, 1943

18 September 2017 0

Eager to escape the stifling uniformity of his native city of Basel, Switzerland, Rudolph Burckhardt departed for New York in 1935. He was accompanied by his friend and poet Edwin Denby, whom he had met one year before. Although Burckhardt…

Anup Shah: The Mara

18 September 2017 0

It was one Sunday morning, a few years ago on the open plains of Mara, that the idea for the body of work in my latest book, ‘The Mara’, was born. I was in the midst of elephants and within…

Tomasz Lewandowski: Auschwitz – Ultima Ratio Of The Modern Age

17 September 2017 0

According to a duo of photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, the form of the industrial construction is determined only by its function. The function is also the „legitimacy“ of the existence of these buildings. In other words, when the structure,…

Russian Photography After the Revolution

17 September 2017 0

One hundred years ago this fall, the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution shook the world, changing the course of history and the fate of photography in Russia. Soviet photographers were handed the monumental task of creating a new mythology for the people…

André Kertész: Mirroring Life

16 September 2017 0

At a very early age André Kertész was drawn to the photography he saw in illustrated magazines as a child. In 1912, after his study in Business Administration, he bought his first camera from his first pay cheque. His hobby…

Michal Cala: Silesia 1975 – 1985

15 September 2017 0

MMX Gallery is delighted to present Silesia 1975-1985, a solo exhibition by Michal Cala, regarded as one of the most important Polish photographers of the last century. Cala started taking pictures in his youth and has been working professionally as…

Leonard Freed: Six Stories

13 September 2017 0

Freed (born 1929, Brooklyn, died 2006, Garrison, New York) was one of the leading photographers of the post-War era. Culled from Freed’s extensive archive, this exhibition presents over 75 vintage black and white prints from six of the photographers most…

Yoga: The Secret of Life By Francesco Mastalia

12 September 2017 0

Yoga: The Secret of Life is a photo-documentary about the spiritual and physical journey of yoga. Through photographs and text this fine art book explores the personal experiences of 108 of today’s leading practitioners and how this ancient practice has…

Bernd & Hilla Becher at Sprüth Magers

11 September 2017 0

In a photographic project spanning five decades, Bernd and Hilla Becher documented the soon-to-be-forgotten architectural forms of industry – Mine Heads, Blast Furnaces, Water Towers, Coal Bunkers, Cooling Towers, Industrial Facades, Gas Tanks, Grain Elevators, to name but a few.…

Ofir Barak: Mea shearim – The streets

10 September 2017 0

Mea Shearim was established in 1874 as the fifth settlement outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. Its name is derived from a verse in the weekly Torah portion that was read the week the settlement was founded:…

The Art of the Platinum Print

9 September 2017 0

Peter Fetterman Gallery is pleased to present a new exhibition surveying the chronology of the Platinum printing process including early Pictorialism, social-documentary, vernacular, and landscape photographs, along with modern portrait, fashion, and nude works. The installation celebrates the now rare…

Mathew Brady: Antebellum Portraits

8 September 2017 0

Mathew Brady may be best known today for his Civil War–era photographs, but he established his reputation as an internationally acclaimed portrait photographer more than a decade before the war. Brady opened his first daguerreotype portrait studio in New York…

Horst P. Horst: Classic Fashion

6 September 2017 0

Horst P. Horst is a seminal modernist photographer of fashion and style. He was an arbiter of taste with an instinctive sense of elegance that became synonymous to his work. He was born in Weissenfels, Germany in 1906 and would…

Jean-François CANTREL: Camera’s Faces

5 September 2017 0

This series is inspired by black and white photographs found in family albums from the fifties and sixties: anonymous portraits taken by my father during his travels. So here are my own strangers, now capturing the photographer, or the viewer.…

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